Start Showing-Up for Your Life
“I've asked myself How much do you commit yourself? It's my life Don't you forget It's my life It never ends (It never ends)” It’s My Life by Talk Talk How much do we commit ourselves to our own lives is a good question for everyone to ask. After all, that’s what recovery is all about. Those of us recovering from codependency spent most of our lives committing ourselves to everyone else’s life. We grew-up with our eyes always focused outside of ourselves. We lived by “Who can I commit myself to today? Who can I take care of today? Whose problems can I try to solve today?” Our only interest was in “your” life. Then we get into recovery and we learned that “your” life isn’t “my” life. We learned that they were two separate and distinct entities. We then learned to untangle the two. And in doing so, we discovered that our lifeline isn’t inside of someone else; it’s inside of us. Suddenly, all of our focus shifted, and we began the process of looking...